Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:03:56 +1030 From: Ian Moore <imoore@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au> To: Mailing List Free BSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Changing bootmanager default Message-ID: <369D1F53.E0D44C56@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au>
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Hi, I have a question about booting FreeBSD on my computer. Is it possible to get FreeBSD to boot from a second IDE drive by default? I have 2 IDE drives, one is wd0 at /dev/wdc0 drive 0, the second is /dev/wd2 at /dev/wdc1 drive 0. wd0 has a DOS partition with Windows 95, wd2 has 2 partitions, the first is FreeBSD and the second is FAT32. When I boot to bsd, I have to manually specify 1:wd(2,a)kernel at the boot: prompt, otherwise, when bsd attempts to mount /, I get a 'Panic! Can't find root' message, because it always goes to wd1s1a by default. I tried setting the kernel line: config kernel root on wdxxxxxx to various settings such as wd2s1a, but still it tries to boot from wd1s1a, rather than wd2s1a. Thanks, -- Ian Moore imoore@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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